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1641. Or 16121

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16121
Title:
[Süleymanname] - [سليماننامه]
Scope & Content:
A lengthy folk narrative, in prose with interspersed passages in verse, by Firdevsi-i Rumi (857-ca. 918/1453-ca. 1512 CE). The contents of this Süleyman-name include stories of the prophet Solomon and of other pre-Islamic Prophets, along with elements of the epic history of pre-Islamic Iran (as ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1067
Extent:
1 text, 122 ff

1642. Or 16122

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16122
Title:
[Mecmua] - [مجموعه]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains three texts: ff 2v-26v : [Menakıb-ı Ebu Ali Sina ve karındaşı Ebu’l-Haris]. This section contains mythical narratives of the extraordinary exploits of Ebu Ali Sina (Avicenna, who is the subject of a number of such tales) and his brother Ebu’l-Haris, both of whom had mastere...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
12th century
Extent:
3 texts, 236 ff

1643. Or 16122 (1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16122 (1)
Title:
[Menakıb-ı Ebu Ali Sina ve karındaşı Ebu’l-Haris] - [مناقب ابو علي سينا وقرنداشى ابو الحارث]
Scope & Content:
This section contains mythical narratives of the extraordinary accomplishments of Ebu Ali Sina (Avicenna, who is the subject of a number of such tales) and his twin brother Ebu’l-Haris based on their mastery of alchemy. In the present manuscript, the word sima is used in error for simya in the t...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1172
Extent:
24 ff

1644. Or 16122 (2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16122 (2)
Title:
Acaibü’l-mahlukat - عجائب المخلوقات
Scope & Content:
This section contains extracts from Yazıcıoğlu Ahmed Bican’s (died after 870 AH/1466 CE) Ottoman Turkish translation of Zakariyya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnī’s (died 682 AH/1283 CE) ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt, an Arabic work on geography and cosmography. Yazıcıoğlu Ahmed Bican’s translation was the most ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Later 12th century
Extent:
40 ff

1645. Or 16122 (3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16122 (3)
Title:
Haza kitab Seyyid Battal Gazi - هذا كتاب سيد بطال غازي
Scope & Content:
This section contains a lengthy Ottoman Turkish version of the popular narrative recounting the heroic exploits of Seyyid Battal Gazi. Little is known of the historical Seyyid Battal, save that he was a gazi who fought under the Umayyads in the early second century AH/eighth century CE. He took...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1183
Extent:
167 ff

1646. Or 16124

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16124
Title:
Maktel-i Hüseyin - مقتل حسين
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an anonymously authored narrative account (dasitan) of the martyrdom of Imam Hüseyin, son of Ali and grandson of the Prophet, in 61 AH/680 CE. The text would have been recited annually on the anniversary of his death on the tenth of Muharrem. The text opens with an exordium...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1125
Extent:
1 text, 128 ff

1647. Or 16125

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16125
Title:
[Tuhfetü’z-zaman ve haridetü’l-evan] - [تحفة الزمان وخريدة الاوان]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a treatise on cosmography and on determining prayer times authored in 932 AH/1526 CE by the Ottoman astronomer, astrologer, and timekeeper, Mustafa ibn-i Ali el-Muvakkit (died 979/1571). Mustafa ibn-i Ali was born in Istanbul in the early tenth century AH/sixteenth century ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1072
Extent:
1 text, 222 ff

1648. Or 16140

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16140
Title:
Fütuhu’ş-Şam - فتوح الشام
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a free translation of the Arabic-language Futūḥ al-Shām, which chronicles the conquest of Syria under the caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar. Its translation into Ottoman Turkish was executed by the author and poet Mustafa ibn-i Yusuf Darir Erzenü’r-Rumi (of Erzurum), an author activ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
10th century
Extent:
1 text, 173 ff

1649. Or 16141

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16141
Title:
Müzekki’n-nüfus - مزكّي النفوس
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Müzekki’n-nüfus (‘The purifier of souls’), a treatise on Sufism and Islamic ethics by the renowned early Ottoman poet and mystic Eşrefoğlu Rumi (died 874 AH/1469-70 CE), also known as Eşrefzade. Eşrefoğlu was born in Iznik in the late eighth century AH/fourteenth centur...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1001
Extent:
1 text, 311 ff

1650. Or 16142

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 16142
Title:
[Menakıb-ı evliya] – [مناقب اوليا]
Scope & Content:
This volume contains an account of the teachings of Şeyh Safi, or Safiyyüddin-i Erdebili (died 735 AH/1334 CE), founder of the Safavi Sufi order and hence regarded as that of the Safavid dynasty of Iran. The author, whose identity is unknown, states in his introduction that his intention was to ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Persian and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 text, 192 ff

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